Changbing Yang
Professional Summary
May 2, 2014
Business address: The University of Texas at Austin
Bureau of Economic Geology
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
(512) 471-4364
E-mail address:
Academic Background
B. S. Hydrogeology, Changchun College of Geology (Jilin University), Changchun, China, 1993
M.S. Hydrogeology, Changchun College of Geology (Jilin University), Changchun, China, 1996
Ph.D. Hydrogeology, University of La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain, 2006
Areas of Expertise
- Numerical modeling of multiphase flow and contaminant transport in both the unsaturated and saturated zones.
- Geochemical modeling and reactive transport.
- Inverse modeling of non-isothermal flow and biogeochemical reactive transport modeling.
- Numerical modeling of soil organic carbon dynamics.
- Soil thermal properties and water fluxes measurements using heat-pulse techniques.
- Multiobjective optimization models for management and sustainable use of water resources.
Professional Work Experience
A. Present Position: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (August 2008 - Present).
B. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate, Utah State University (June 2007 - August 2008).
C. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University at Bloomington (June 2006 - May 2007).
D. Teaching Assistant, Enxeñeiro de Camiños, Canais e Portos, Universidad de La Coruña (September 2003 - June 2005).
Two courses for graduate students:
Applied Geostatistics (Introductor: Javier Samper)
Multicomponent reactive transport in porous media (Introductor: Javier Samper).
E. Research Scientist, Nanjing Institution of Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Water Resource, China (July 1996 - August 2001).
F. Teaching Assistant, Department of Engineering geology and hydrogeology, School of Geosciences, Jilin University (September 1994 - June 1996).
Three courses for undergraduate students:
Introductory Hydrogeology (Introductor: Wenxi Lu)
Fluid dynamics in porous media (Introductor: Zhaoyi Xu)
Numerical modeling of groundwater (Introductor: Lizhi Zou).
Awards and Honorary Societies
Top 12 Presentation, Annual Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration Conference, April 30–May 3, 2012
One of Top 12 Best Abstracts, 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture Utilization & Sequestration, Pittsburgh, 2012
First Prize for Science and Technology Achievement, for contribution to the project, Study on Multiple-Object Cooperated Development and Management of Water Resource of International Rivers, by Yunnan Province, China, 2002
Second Prize for Science and Technology Achievement for contribution to the project, Water Resource of Lancangjiang River and GIS, by Yunnan Province, China, 2001
Third Prize for Science & Technology Achievement for contribution to the project, Optimal Management and Allocation of Water Resource of Xiamen, by Xiamen government, 2000
Committee Responsibilities and Professional Activities
Editor, Editorial Board, Journal of Computational Environmental Sciences, July, 2013 - present
Convenor, Geological CO2 Storage Monitoring from Injection Zone to Vadose Zone: Characterization, Detection Methods, and Field Applications, 2012 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San FranciscoDecember, 2012
Convenor, Advances in Geochemical and Hydrogeological Studies of CO2 Fate and Transport at Geological CO2 Sequestration Sites (I, II, III, IV), 2012 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San FranciscoDecember, 2012
Convener, Assessing Potential Impacts of Geological Carbon Sequestration on Groundwater Quality: Geochemical and Hydrological Approaches, 2011 Geological Society of American Annual Meeting & Exposition, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October, 2011
Convener, Near-Surface Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic CO2 from Subsurface Formations, 2009 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December, 2009
Publications
Books, Manuals
Wang, J., Dai, X., Zhang, S., Yang, C., and Li, Y., 2001, Water resource allocation and management of Shamen City in China: China WaterPower Press, ISBN-7-5084-0617-6/TV.123 (in Chinese), .
Reports, Monographs, Brochures, Pamphlets, Bulletins
Yang, Changbing, Mickler, P., and Scanlon, B. R., 2013, Groundwater degradation from carbon dioxide at geological carbon sequestration sites, Web Report #4265: Water Research Foundation, 127 p.
Articles
Peer Reviewed
Yang, C., Dai, Z., Romanak, K. D., Hovorka, S. D., and Treviño, R. H., 2014, Inverse modeling of water-rock-CO2 batch experiments: potential impacts on groundwater resources at carbon sequestration sites: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 48, no. 5, p. 2798–2806, doi: 10.1021/es4041368
Mickler, P., Yang, Changbing, Scanlon, B. R., Reedy, R. C., and Lu, Jiemin, 2013, Potential impacts of CO2 leakage on groundwater chemistry from laboratory batch experiments and field push-pull tests: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 47, p. 10694-10702, doi: 10.1021/es401455j.
Yang, Changbing, Sakai, M., and Jones, Scott, 2013, Inverse method for simultaneous determination of soil water flux density and thermal properties with a penta-needle heat pulse probe: Water Resources Research, v. 49, p. 1–14, doi: 10.1002/wrcr.20459.
Yang, Changbing, Romanak, Katherine, Hovorka, S. D., and Treviño, R. H., 2013, Modeling CO2 release experiment in the shallow subsurface and sensitivity analysis: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 19, no. 3, p. 207–220.
Yang, Changbing, Mickler, P., Reedy, R. C., Scanlon, B. R., Romanak, Katherine, Nicot, J. -P., Hovorka, S. D., Treviño, R. H., and Larson, T., 2013, Single-well push–pull test for assessing potential impacts of CO2 leakage on groundwater quality in a shallow Gulf Coast aquifer in Cranfield, Mississippi: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 18, p. 375-387.
Yang, Changbing, Romanak, Katherine, Hovorka, S. D., Holt, R. M., Lindner, J., and Treviño, R. H., 2013, Near-surface monitoring of large-volume CO2 injection at Cranfield: Early field test of SECARB Phase III: SPE Journal, v. 18, no. 3, p. 486–494.
Lu, J., Cook, P. J., Hosseini, S. A., Yang, C., Romanak, K. D., Zhang, T., Freifeld, B. M., Smyth, R. C., Zeng, H., and Hovorka, S. D., 2012, Complex fluid flow revealed by monitoring CO2 injection in a fluvial formation: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 117, B03208, doi:10.1029/2011JB008939.
Romanak, K. D., Smyth, R. C., Yang, C., Hovorka, S. D., Rearick, M., and Lu, J., 2012, Sensitivity of groundwater systems to CO2: application of a site-specific analysis of carbonate monitoring parameters at the SACROC CO2-enhanced oil field: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 5, no. 1, p. 142‒152.
Romanak, K. D., Bennett, P. C., Yang, C., and Hovorka, S. D., 2012, Process-based approach to CO2 leakage detection by vadose zone gas monitoring at geologic CO2 storage sites: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 39, L15405, doi:10.1029/2012GL052426.
Yang, Changbing, and Samper, Javier, 2009, Numerical evaluation of multicomponent cation exchange reactive transport in physically and geochemically heterogeneous porous media: Computational Geosciences, v. 13, p. 391–404.
Yang, Changbing, and Jones, Scott, 2009, INV-WATFLX, a code for simultaneous estimation of soil properties and planar vector water flux from fully or partly functioning needles of a penta-needle heat-pulse probe: Computers & Geosciences, v. 35, p. 2250–2258.
Samper, Javier, Xu, T., and Yang, C., 2009, A sequential partly iterative approach for multicomponent reactive transport with CORE2D: Computational Geosciences, v. 13, p. 301–316.
Yang, Changbing, Samper, Javier, Zhu, Chen, and Jones, Scott, 2008, Numerical modeling of the development of a preferentially leached layer on feldspar surfaces: Environmental Geology, v. 57, p. 1639–1647, DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1445-3.
Yang, Changbing, Samper, Javier, and Molinero, Jorge, 2008, Inverse microbial and geochemical reactive transport models in porous media: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 33, p. 1026–1034
Soler, J. M., Samper, J., Yllera, A., Hernández, A., Quejido, A., Fernández, M., Yang, C., Naves, A., Hernán, P., and Wersin, P., 2008, The DI-B in-situ diffusion experiment at Mont Terri: results and modeling: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 33, p. S196–S207, DOI:10.1016/j.pce.2008.10.010.
Yang, Changbing, and Samper, Javier, 2008, A subgrid-scale stabilized finite element method for multicomponent reactive transport through porous media: Transport in Porous Media, v. 78, p. 101–126, DOI 10.1007/s 1242-008-9288-7, 26 p.
Yang, Changbing, Samper, Javier, and Montenegro, Luis, 2007, A coupled non-isothermal reactive transport model for long-term geochemical evolution of a HLW repository in clay: Environmental Geology, v. 53, 1627–1638, DOI. 10.1007/s00254-007-0770-2.
Yang, Changbing, Samper, Javier, Molinero, Jorge, and Bonilla, Mercedes, 2007, Modelling geochemical and microbial consumption of dissolved oxygen after backfilling a high level radiactive [sic] waste repository: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, v. 93, no. 1–4, p. 130–148.
Yang, Changbing, Park, Melora, and Zhu, Chen, 2007, A method for estimating in situ reaction rates from push-pull experiments for arbitrary solute background concentrations: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, v. 13, no.4, p. 345–354.
Samper, Javier, Yang, C., Naves, A., Yllera, A., Hernandez, J., Molinero, J., Soler, J. M., Hernan, J. C., Mayor, J. C., and Astudillo, J., 2006, A fully 3-D anisotropic numerical model of the DI-B in situ diffusion experiment in the Opalinus clay formation: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, v. 31, no. 10-14, p. 531–540.
Samper, Javier, and Yang, Changbing, 2006, Stochastic analysis of transport and multicomponent competitive monovalent cation exchange in aquifers: Geosphere, v. 2, p. 102–112.
Galíndez, J. M., Molinero, J., Samper, J., and Yang, C. B., 2006, Simulating concrete degradation processes by reactive transport models: Journal de Physique IV, v. 136, p. 177–188.
Samper, Javier, and Yang, C., 2006, A semi-analytical solution for linearized multicomponent cation exchange reactive transport in groundwater: Transport in Porous Media, v. 69, no. 1, p. 67–88.
Molinero, Jorge, Samper, Javier, Zhang, Guoxiang, and Yang, Changbing, 2004, Biogeochemical reactive transport model of the Redox Zone Experiment of the Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory in Sweden: Nuclear Technology, v. 148, no. 2, p. 151–165.
Samper, Javier, Molinero, J., Yang, C., Naves, A., and Montenegro, L., 2004, Modelos de transporte en medios arcillosos (Mont Terri): Vas Jornadas de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Gestión de Residuos Radiactivos, Septiembre, v. 4, ISSN: 1134-380 X, p. 170–182 (in Spanish).
Li, Y., and Yang, C., 1998, Modeling of flow regime of Big Springs in Northern China: Advances in Water Science, v. 9, no. 3 (in Chinese).
Yang, C., 1995, Experimental study on scale effect of hydraulic conductivity: Journal of Chungchun University of Earth Sciences, v. 25, Supplement 1 (in Chinese).
Zou, L., and Yang, C., 1994, On the definition of the specific yield: Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, v. 21 (in Chinese).
Zou, L., and Yang, C., 1994, The state-of-the-art of studying on scale effects of hydrodynamic parameters: Journal of Chungchun University of Earth Sciences, v. 24 (in Chinese).
Non-Peer-Reviewed
Romanak, Katherine, Sherk, G. W., Hovorka, S. D., and Yang, Changbing, 2013, Assessment of alleged CO2 leakage at the Kerr farm using a simple process-based soil gas technique: Implications for carbon capture, utilizatin, and storage (CCUS) monitoring: Energy Procedia, v. 37, p. 4242–4248.
Nicot, J. -P., Solano, Silvia, Lu, Jiemin, Mickler, P., Romanak, Katherine, Yang, Changbing, and Zhang, X., 2013, Potential subsurface impacts of CO2 stream impurities on geologic carbon storage: Energy Procedia, v, 37, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies GHGT11, November 18-22, Kyoto, Japan, p. 4552-4559.
Porras, A., Yang, C., Tu, K., Broussard, B., and Sun, A. Y., 2012, Numerical modeling of groundwater flux through a low-level radioactive waste repository for performance assessment: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 62, p. 343‒350.
Wolaver, B. D., Romanak, K. D., Yang, C., and Dale, J., 2012, Hydrogeology of the Kerr site, in The Kerr investigation: final report findings of the investigation into the impact of CO2 on the Kerr property: IPAC-CO2 Research Inc., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Yang, Changbing, Romanak, Katherine, Holt, R. M., Linder, J., Smith, L., Treviño, R. H., Roecker, Frank, Xia, Y., and Rickerts, J., 2012, Large volume of CO2 injection at the Cranfield, early field test of the SECARB Phase III: near-surface monitoring, in Carbon Management Technology Conference, 7–9 February, Orlando, Florida, USA, DOI: 10.7122/151428-MS.
Hovorka, S. D., Meckel, Timothy, Treviño, R. H., Lu, Jiemin, Nicot, J. -P., Choi, Jong-Won, Freeman, D., Cook, P. G., Daley, Tom, Ajo-Franklin, J., Freifeld, Barry, Doughty, C. A., Carrigan, C. R., La Brecque, D., Kharaka, Yousif, Thordsen, J. J., Phelps, Tommy, Yang, Changbing, Romanak, Katherine, Zhang, Tongwei, Holt, R. M., Lindler, J. S., and Butsch, R. J., 2011, Monitoring a large volume CO2 injection: year two results from SECARB project at Denbury's Cranfield, Mississippi, USA, in Energy Procedia, v. 4, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies GHGT10, September 19‒23, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, p. 3478‒3485.
Romanak, K. D., Smyth, R. C., Yang, Changbing, Hovorka, S. D., and Lu, J., 2010, Role of dedolomitization in the detection of anthropogenic CO2 in freshwater aquifers, in Proceedings, 13th International Conference on Water-Rock Interaction, WRI-13, Guanajuato, Mexico, August 16–20, p. 887–890.
Yang, Changbing, 2009, Snow, northern Utah, in Laubach, S. E., and Tinker, S. W., eds., 2009, Earth’s art: celebrating the Centennial of the Bureau of Economic Geology, 1909–2009: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, p. 68–69.
Smyth, R. C., Hovorka, S. D., Lu, Jiemin, Romanak, Katherine, Partin, J. W., Wong, Corinne, and Yang, Changbing, 2009, Assessing risk to fresh water resources from long term CO2 injection—laboratory and field studies: Energy Procedia, v. 1, p. 1957–1964.
Yang, C, and Samper, Javier, 2008, Numerical evaluation of multicomponent cation exchange reactive transport in physically and geochemically heterogeneous porous media, in International Workshop on Modelling Reactive Transport in Porous Media, Strasbourg, France, January 21–24.
Yang, C, Samper, Javier, and Montenegro, L., 2007, CORE2D V4: a code for water flow, heat and solute transport, geochemical reactions, and microbial processes, in Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers for Radioactive Waste Confinement, 3rd International Meeting, Lille, France, September 17–20.
Yang, C., Samper, Javier, and Montenegro, L., 2007, Inverse microbial and geochemical reactive transport models in porous media, in Migration 2007, Munich, Germany, August, 26–31.
Samper, Javier, Martinez, P., Molinero, J., Martinez, P., Zheng, L., Bonilla, M., Yang, Changbang, and Melis, M., 2007, Impact of burial of M30 highway in the subsurface hydrology of Madrid near Manzanares River: 1. Evaluation with 3D numerical models, in XXXV IAH Congress, Lisbon, Portugal.
Samper, Javier, Bonilla, M., António Díaz-Lázaro, J., Barroso, J. L., Lopes-Vera, F., Zheng, L., Melis, M., Romo, Enrique, Gonzalez, C., Jaen, P., and Yang, Changbang, 2007, Impact of burial of M30 highway in the subsurface hydrology of Madrid near Manzanares River: 2. Transient head data from monitoring network and model testing, in XXXV IAH Congress, Lisbon, Portugal.
Yang, C., Samper, Javier, Molinero, J., and Bonilla, M., 2006, Direct and inverse couples thermal-hydro-bio-geochemical models for porous and fractured media, in CMWR XVI—Computational Methods in Water Resources, XVI International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 19–22